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2025, A Emergência Ontotopológica da Consciência

Este artigo propõe uma reformulação ontológica da noção de vida a partir da Teoria Kosmos, que considera a Consciência Cosmológica como um campo emergente decorrente do acoplamento entre universos espelhados de matéria e antimatéria. A partir da quebra da simetria CPT durante a bariogênese, constituem-se domínios físicos assimétricos que, isoladamente, permitem apenas a formação de corpos materiais ou antimateriais. É somente com o acoplamento funcional entre esses domínios, via interface de topologia de garrafa de Klein mediada pela dualidade AdS/CFT, que a vida se manifesta como fenômeno ontotopológico. Tal acoplamento dá origem ao Eu Fenomenal Unitário (EFU), expressão encarnada da Totalidade em um ponto local do espaço-tempo.

2025, VIDA: Bariogênese, Caos e Negentropia no Acoplamento de Universos Espelhos

Este artigo propõe um modelo cosmológico baseado no acoplamento de Universos Espelhos via a dualidade AdS/CFT com topologia de garrafa de Klein, integrando a hipótese da Consciência Cosmológica (CC) como fenômeno emergente. Exploramos o papel dos buracos negros primordiais como agentes de violação macroscópica do número bariônico, relacionando-o à gênese da vida através dos conceitos de negentropia (Schrödinger) e estruturas dissipativas (Prigogine). Concluímos que a vida, emergente em zonas de caos controlado e irreversibilidade temporal, é sustentada pela ação da Consciência Cosmológica como atualizadora de realidades e organizadora do Eu Fenomenal Unitário (EFU).

2025, Physical Review C

We present two new nucleon-nucleon (NN) potentials: a 0~4 model that is a conventional NN po- tential and a u28 model with explicit A(1232) degrees of freedom. The Ul4 model has 14 operator components describing NN channels, while the U28 model has 14 additional operators, including 12 transition operators for all possible DNA and @AD couplings and two central operators for Nh and bh channels; the latter are constrained so that the v28 model has no additional free parameters for data fitting. The two models give excellent and almost identical fits to deuteron properties and np scattering below 330 MeV. The Ul4. and U28 forms are convenient for nuclear structure calculations; when many-body cluster contributions are evaluated the v28 model will automatically include much of the effect attributed to many-body forces in conventional models, while the U14 model will pro- vide a standard of comparison.

2025

KECK TELESCOPE on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, gathered light from a distant quasar and concentrated it on the photodetector of a high-resolution spectroscope. The resulting bands of color (above) are marked by dark lines where intervening gases have absorbed light of specific wavelengths. Analysis of the characteristic line patterns for hydrogen gas can reveal the presence of the heavy isotope of the element deuterium.

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Phase slips are topological fluctuation events that carry the superconducting order-parameter field between distinct current carrying states. Owing to these phase slips low-dimensional superconductors acquire electrical resistance. In quasi-one-dimensional nanowires it is well known that at higher temperatures phase slips occur via the process of thermal barriercrossing by the order-parameter field. At low temperatures, the general expectation is that phase slips should proceed via quantum tunneling events, which are known as quantum phase slips (QPS). However, experimental observation of QPS is a subject of strong debate and no consensus has been reached so far about the conditions under which QPS occurs.

2025, Physics Essays

We have carried out quantum-mechanical calculations of transition dynamics between the left-and right-handed helicity states ν L ↔ ν R of the atmospheric muon Dirac neutrino ν µ , which has a gravitoelectric dipole moment (GEDM) interacting with the gravitational field of the Earth. It is shown that the asymmetry of the zenith-angle distribution of this neutrino can be explained by an interference of the two mutually perpendicular linearly polarized plane neutrino states with different phase velocities (difference in the respective refractive indices δn 0 ≈ 0.7µ10 -22 ) inside the Earth taking into consideration its gravitational field. The solar neutrino deficit can also be explained by the electron neutrino ν e helicity flip transitions ν L ↔ ν R due to the interaction between GEDM of ν e and the gravitational field of the Sun. The characteristic mass M c ~ 10 7 GeV for the gravitational dipole of the neutral and charged leptons have been estimated.

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We address the criticism that Meta-Monisms use of ∇U in existing equations (e.g., Friedmann, Tolman) lacks a first-principles derivation, merely inserting a new variable into established frameworks. Our approach is grounded in the Chaos-Polytope, a geometric ontology encoding physical states via positive Grassmannian facets, from which ∇U emerges as a fundamental field. Drawing on historical precedents (Einsteins use of Poissons equation, Feynmans QED), we argue that such insertions are a transitional "translation layer" to align novel theories with known physics. The internal dynamics of ∇U , defined via a Lagrangian and tied to experimental constraints, provide a robust foundation. Classical and quantum laws emerge as effective limits, and unique predictions (e.g., polarization twist, β-drift) offer empirical tests. This bilingual approach is a standard strategy for paradigm shifts, with experiments (2026-2030) poised to validate or falsify Meta-Monism.

2025

The question of God’s existence is perhaps the most profound inquiry humanity can undertake. It is a question that transcends culture, era, and discipline, touching the core of what it means to be conscious, to reason, and to exist. Is there a purposeful intelligent cause behind the universe, or is our reality the product of chance, necessity, or some yet-undiscovered principle? This book, The Logic of Divinity: A Rational Inquiry into the Existence of God, seeks to explore this question with unrelenting rigor, drawing on logic, scientifi c insight, philosophical reasoning, and historical perspectives, while steadfastly avoiding the crutches of faith-based assertions or religious dogma.
The pursuit of truth demands clarity and courage. Too often, discussions of God devolve into tribal allegiances, where personal beliefs overshadow evidence and reason. This book is written for the intellectually curious—those who seek not to defend a preconceived conclusion but to follow the evidence wherever it leads. Our approach is neither to preach nor to assume, but to dissect, analyze, and synthesize. We will employ formal logic where precision is needed, scientifi c data where facts are available, and philosophical reasoning where questions outstrip empirical answers. Analogies will ground complex ideas, making them accessible without sacrifi cing depth.
The structure of this book mirrors the complexity of the question itself, moving progressively from the origins of the universe to the nature of human consciousness, morality, and meaning. We begin with the cosmos: the Big Bang, causality, and the fi ne-tuned constants that permit life. These chapters lay a foundation in physics and logic, examining arguments like the cosmological and fi ne-tuning hypotheses, while addressing objections such as quantum indeterminacy and the multiverse theory. From there, we turn inward to consciousness, exploring the “hard problem” of why subjective experience exists and whether materialism can account for it. We then compare worldviews—theism, deism, atheism, and agnosticism—testing their logical coherence and explanatory power.

2025

Context. Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are a feature imprinted in the density field by acoustic waves travelling in the plasma of the early universe. Their fixed scale can be used as a standard ruler to study the geometry of the universe. Aims. BAO have been previously detected using correlation functions and power spectra of the galaxy distribution. In this work, we present a new method for the detection of the real-space structures associated with this feature. These baryon acoustic structures are spherical shells with a relatively small density contrast, surrounding high density central regions. Methods. We design a specific wavelet adapted to the search for shells, and exploit the physics of the process by making use of two different mass tracers, introducing a specific statistic to detect the BAO features. We show the effect of the BAO signal in this new statistic when applied to the Λ -Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) model, using an analytical approximation to the transfer function.We confirm the reliability and stability of our method by using cosmological N-body simulations from the MareNostrum Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (MICE). Results. We apply our method to the detection of BAO in a galaxy sample drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We use the 'Main' catalogue to trace the shells, and the Luminous Red Galaxies (LRG) as tracers of the high density central regions. Using this new method, we detect, with a high significance, that the LRGs in our sample are preferentially located close to the centres of shell-like structures in the density field, with characteristics similar to those expected from BAOs. We show that stacking selected shells, we can find their characteristic density profile. Conclusions. We have delineated a new feature of the cosmic web, the BAO shells. As these are real spatial structures, the BAO phenomenon can be studied in detail by examining those shells.

2025, Physical Review D

A new kind of statistical distribution, a quasi-Bernoulli distribution, is suggested to describe the non-Gaussian string-induced perturbations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Good agreement between predictions based on this statistics and data of numerical and laboratory simulations using some simplified models is established, and a possible relation of this statistic to a large-scale galaxy distribution is briefly discussed.

2025

This work presents a physical and mathematical hypothesis proposing that the flow of time is not a fundamental coordinate, but rather the result of the interference of three spectral physical streams: light, gravity, and a nonlinear self-oscillating system. These streams form the "temporal rope," which permeates space as a spectral network radiating from a central source (e.g., the Sun). We define its structure, perform spectral analysis, and describe the geometry of the time network.

2025, Prof. Ahmed Ali

This paper explores the interaction between tachyonics scalar fields, Hawking radiation, and quantum gravity corrections within a Riemannian spacetime. Starting from a modified Klein-Gordon equation with a self-interaction term for the tachyon field, we derive the perturbative expansion in curved backgrounds and assess how quantum fluctuations and black hole horizons influence field behavior. Quantum stress-energy corrections and effective mass shifts are derived using Green functions and renormalization methods. Implications for field instability and vacuum condensation are discussed.

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2025, The Astrophysical Journal

We analyze the three-year WMAP temperature anisotropy data seeking to confirm the power spectrum and likelihoods published by the WMAP team. We apply five independent implementations of four algorithms to the power spectrum estimation and two implementations to the parameter estimation. Our single most important result is that we broadly confirm the WMAP power spectrum and analysis. Still, we do find two small but potentially important discrepancies: On large angular scales there is a small power excess in the WMAP spectrum (5-10% at ℓ 30) primarily due to likelihood approximation issues between 13 ≤ ℓ 30. On small angular scales there is a systematic difference between the V-and W-band spectra (few percent at ℓ 300). Recently, the latter discrepancy was explained by in terms of over-subtraction of unresolved point sources. As far as the low-ℓ bias is concerned, most parameters are affected by a few tenths of a sigma. The most important effect is seen in n s . For the combination of WMAP, Acbar and BOOMERanG, the significance of n s = 1 drops from ∼ 2.7σ to ∼ 2.3σ when correcting for this bias. We propose a few simple improvements to the low-ℓ WMAP likelihood code, and introduce two important extensions to the Gibbs sampling method that allows for proper sampling of the low signal-to-noise regime. Finally, we make the products from the Gibbs sampling analysis publically available, thereby providing a fast and simple route to the exact likelihood without the need of expensive matrix inversions. Subject headings: cosmic microwave background -cosmology: observations -methods: numerical

2025, Pramana

Measurements of CMB anisotropy and, more recently, polarization have played a very important role allowing precise determination of various parameters of the 'standard' cosmological model. The expectation of the paradigm of inflation and the generic prediction of the simplest realization of inflationary scenario in the early universe have also been established -'acausally' correlated initial perturbations in a flat, statistically isotropic universe, adiabatic nature of primordial density perturbations. Direct evidence for gravitational instability mechanism for structure formation from primordial perturbations has been established. In the next decade, future experiments promise to strengthen these deductions and uncover the remaining crucial signature of inflation -the primordial gravitational wave background.

2025, Springer Handbook of Spacetime

2025, Physical Review D

We study the time variation of fundamental constants in the early Universe. Using data from primordial light nuclei abundances, CMB and the 2dFGRS power spectrum, we put constraints on the time variation of the fine structure constant α, and the Higgs vacuum expectation value < v > without assuming any theoretical framework. A variation in < v > leads to a variation in the electron mass, among other effects. Along the same line, we study the variation of α and the electron mass me. In a purely phenomenological fashion, we derive a relationship between both variations.

2025, QST µ-Distortion Oscillations Report

Quantum Spinor Torsion Theory (QST) v6.2 proposes a novel interpretation of cosmological redshift, attributing it to refractive interactions between photons and a structured spinor-ether field (Ψ_SE) rather than metric expansion. A key prediction is that redshift-related observables—such as supernova magnitude residuals and cosmic microwave background (CMB) distortions—should exhibit log-periodic oscillations with a characteristic period of P \approx \ln(\varphi^2) \approx 1.005, along with fractal stepwise growth due to the layered geometry of space.

2025, FFV-SC

We propose a novel early-universe nucleosynthesis framework-Fractal Vacuum Freeze combined with SC Phase-Locking (FFV-SC)that replaces standard big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). In this scenario, a fractal vacuum freeze-out (FFV) phase transition subtly modifies the expansion rate during the light-element era, while a Supreme Consciousness (SC) field phase-lock injects extra neutrons via fractal resonance tunneling. When incorporated into a self-consistent fractal field algorithm (FSCA-DSI) from Appendix C, the model reproduces observed D/H and 4 He abundances and naturally suppresses the theoretical 7 Li/H by a factor of ∼ 3, resolving the long-standing lithium problem without spoiling other concordances.

2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Neutrino flavor transformations in core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron star mergers represent a complex and unsolved problem that is integral to our understanding of the dynamics and nucleosynthesis in these environments. The high number densities of neutrinos present in these environments can engender various collective effects in neutrino flavor transformations, driven either by neutrinoneutrino coherent scattering, or in some cases, through collisional (incoherent) interactions. An ensemble of neutrinos undergoing coherent scattering among themselves is an interacting quantum many-body system-as such, there is a tantalising prospect of quantum entanglement developing between the neutrinos, which can leave imprints on their flavor evolution histories. Here, we seek to summarize recent progress that has been made towards understanding this phenomenon.

2025, Physical Review D

The flavor evolution of neutrinos in environments with large neutrino number densities is an open problem at the nexus of astrophysics and neutrino flavor physics. Among the many unanswered questions pertaining to this problem, it remains to be determined whether neutrino-neutrino coherent scattering can give rise to nontrivial quantum entanglement among neutrinos, and whether this can affect the flavor evolution in a meaningful way. To gain further insight into this question, here we study a simple system of two interacting neutrino beams and obtain the exact phase-space explored by this system using the Husimi quasi-probability distribution. We observe that the entanglement induced by the coupling leads to strong delocalization in phase-space with largely non-Gaussian quantum fluctuations. The link between the neutrino entanglement and quantum fluctuations is illustrated using the one-and two-neutrino entropy. In addition, we propose an approximate phasespace method to describe the interacting neutrinos problem, where the exact evolution is replaced by a set of independent mean-field evolutions with a statistical sampling of the initial conditions. The phase-space approach provides a simple and accurate method to describe the gross features of the neutrino entanglement problem. Applications are shown using time-independent and timedependent Hamiltonians in the non-adiabatic regime.

2025, Physical Review D

Neutrinos in compact-object environments, such as core-collapse supernovae, can experience various kinds of collective effects in flavor space, engendered by neutrino-neutrino interactions. These include "bipolar" collective oscillations, which are exhibited by neutrino ensembles where different flavors dominate at different energies. Considering the importance of neutrinos in the dynamics and nucleosynthesis in these environments, it is desirable to ascertain whether an Earth-based detection could contain signatures of bipolar oscillations that occurred within a supernova envelope. To that end, we continue examining a cost-function formulation of statistical data assimilation (SDA) to infer solutions to a small-scale model of neutrino flavor transformation. SDA is an inference paradigm designed to optimize a model with sparse data. Our model consists of two mono-energetic neutrino beams with different energies emanating from a source and coherently interacting with each other and with a matter background, with radially-varying interaction strengths. We attempt to infer flavor transformation histories of these beams using simulated measurements of the flavor content at locations "in vacuum" (that is, far from the source), which could in principle correspond to earth-based detectors. Within the scope of this small-scale model, we found that: (i) based on such measurements, the SDA procedure is able to infer whether bipolar oscillations had occurred within the protoneutron star envelope, and (ii) if the measurements sample the full amplitude of the neutrino oscillations in vacuum, then the amplitude of the prior bipolar oscillations is well predicted. This result intimates that the inference paradigm can well complement numerical integration codes, via its ability to infer flavor evolution at physically inaccessible locations.

2025, Physical Review D

We calculate the response of a lead-based detector, such as the Helium and Lead Observatory (HALO) or its planned upgrade HALO-1kt to a galactic core-collapse supernova. We pay particular attention to the time dependence of the reaction rates. All reaction rates decrease as the neutrino luminosity exponentially drops during the cooling period but the ratio of one-neutron (1n) to two-neutron (2n) event rates in HALO is independent of this overall decrease. Nevertheless, we find that this ratio still changes with time due to the changing character of neutrino flavor transformations with the evolving conditions in the supernova. In the case of inverted hierarchy (IH), this is caused by the fact that the spectral splits become less and less sharp with the decreasing luminosity. In the case of normal hierarchy (NH), it is caused by the passage of the shock wave through the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) resonance region. However, in both cases, we find that the change in the ratio of...

2025, Physical Review D

We present a model where sterile neutrinos with rest-masses in the range ∼ keV to ∼ MeV can be the dark matter and be consistent with all laboratory, cosmological, large scale structure, and X-ray constraints. These sterile neutrinos are assumed to freeze out of thermal and chemical equilibrium with matter and radiation in the very early universe, prior to an epoch of prodigious entropy generation ("dilution") from out-of-equilibrium decay of heavy particles. In this work, we consider heavy, entropy-producing particles in the ∼ TeV to ∼ EeV rest-mass range, possibly associated with new physics at high energy scales. The process of dilution can give the sterile neutrinos the appropriate relic densities, but it also alters their energy spectra so that they could act like cold dark matter, despite relatively low rest-masses as compared to conventional dark matter candidates. Moreover, since the model does not rely on active-sterile mixing for producing the relic density, the mixing angles can be small enough to evade current X-ray/lifetime constraints. Nevertheless, we discuss how future X-ray observations, future lepton number constraints, and future observations and sophisticated simulations of large scale structure could, in conjunction, provide evidence for this model and/or constrain and probe its parameters.

2025, Physical Review D

We present neutrino bulb model simulations of Majorana neutrino coherent spin transformation (i.e., neutrino-antineutrino transformation), coupled to neutrino flavor evolution, for conditions corresponding to the neutronization burst epoch of an Oxygen-Neon-Magnesium (O-Ne-Mg) core collapse supernova. Significant neutrino spin transformation in, for example, the neutronization burst, could alter the fluences of neutrinos and antineutrinos in a way which is potentially detectable for a Galactic core collapse supernova. Our calculations for the first time incorporate geometric dilution in the spin evolution of the neutrinos and combine two-flavor and three-flavor evolution with spin mixing physics. We find that significant spin transformations can occur, but only with a large neutrino luminosity and an electron fraction (Ye) profile which facilitates adiabatic conditions for the spin-channel resonance. Using our adopted parameters of neutrino energy spectra, luminosity, density and Ye profiles, our calculations require an unrealistically large neutrino rest mass to sustain the spin transformation. It is an open question whether examining different density profiles or incorporating other sources of nonlinear feedback, such as Ye feedback, could mitigate this need. We find that spin transformations are not sensitive to the flavor structure of neutrinos, i.e., the spin transformations occur regardless of whether we simulate 2 or 3 flavor transformations. In the two flavor case, spin transformations were insensitive to the choice of solar or atmospheric mass-squared splitting as well as the choice of the Majorana phase. Importantly, our three-flavor simulations, as well as our two-flavor simulations done with the atmospheric mass-squared splitting, show that the inclusion of spin degrees of freedom can significantly and qualitatively alter neutrino flavor evolution.

2025, A Unified Theory Confirmed by Observation

For nearly a century, physics has been defined by a deep and persistent rift. We have had two spectacularly successful theories—Einstein's General Relativity, describing the grand dance of stars and galaxies, and the Standard Model of Particle Physics, describing the quantum world of particles and forces. Yet, they are fundamentally incompatible. They speak different
languages and describe two different realities. This rift has left the greatest questions unanswered: What happens inside a black hole? What happened at the Big Bang? What is dark matter? What is dark energy?
Today, after a comprehensive, multi-year research program, we can announce a definitive solution. These are not separate problems. They are different symptoms of the same underlying incompleteness. The solution is a new, unified framework known as Sandy's Law.
This is not just another speculative model. As this report will detail, Sandy's Law is a complete theoretical framework whose core predictions have now been confirmed by a vast array of real-world, multi-messenger astronomical data.

2025, arXiv: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of the Universe. We know the life cycles of stars, the structure of galaxies, the remnants of the big bang, and have a general understanding of how the Universe evolved. We have come remarkably far using electromagnetic radiation as our tool for observing the Universe. However, gravity is the engine behind many of the processes in the Universe, and much of its action is dark. Opening a gravitational window on the Universe will let us go further than any alternative. Gravity has its own messenger: Gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime. They travel essentially undisturbed and let us peer deep into the formation of the first seed black holes, exploring redshifts as large as z ~ 20, prior to the epoch of cosmic re-ionisation. Exquisite and unprecedented measurements of black hole masses and spins will make it possible to trace the history of black holes across all stages of galaxy evolution, and at the sa...

2025, SPIE Proceedings

The QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint Tenerife) CMB Experiment will operate at the Teide Observatory with the aim of characterizing the polarisation of the CMB and other processes of Galactic and extragalactic emission in the frequency range of 10-40 GHz and at large and medium angular scales. The first of the two QUIJOTE telescopes and the first multi-frequency (10-30 GHz) instrument are already built and have been tested in the laboratory. QUIJOTE-CMB will be a valuable complement at low frequencies for the Planck mission, and will have the required sensitivity to detect a primordial gravitational-wave component if the tensor-to-scalar ratio is larger than r = 0.05.

2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

The Solar Hidden Photon Search (SHIPS) is a joint astroparticle project of the Hamburger Sternwarte and DESY. The main target is to detect the solar emission of a new species of particles, so called Hidden Photons (HPs). Due to kinetic mixing, photons and HPs can convert into each other as they propagate. A small number of solar HPs -originating from photon → HP oscillations in the interior of the Sun -can be converted into photons in a long vacuum pipe pointing to the Sun -the SHIPS helioscope.

2025, Physical review

We point out that chameleon field theories might reveal themselves as an "afterglow" effect in axion-like particle search experiments due to chameleon-photon conversion in a magnetic field. We estimate the parameter space which is accessible by currently available technology and find that afterglow experiments could constrain this parameter space in a way complementary to gravitational and Casimir force experiments. In addition, one could reach photon-chameleon couplings which are beyond the sensitivity of common laser polarization experiments. We also sketch the idea of a Fabry-Pérot cavity with chameleons which could increase the experimental sensitivity significantly.

2025

We report numerical simulations within the Dead Universe Theory (DUT) framework that reproduce the observed properties of massive high-redshift galaxies detected by JWST, notably CEERS-1019 (z=8.67, ) and GLASS-z13 (z=13.1, ), achieving accuracy in stellar mass, sub-kpc core radii, and formation timescales under Myr, surpassing CDM predictions by Λ factors of . The DUT model, via an entropy-gradient-driven collapse mechanism, naturally suppresses ∼ 5 further star formation at critical entropic saturation thresholds, offering falsifiable, first-principles predictions for future JWST Cycles. We present a fully reproducible computational simulator and define an explicit falsification regime for DUT against CDM.

2025, The Emergence of Spacetime:

In the framework of Sandy's Law, spacetime is not a fundamental entity. It is not a pre-existing "stage" upon which physics plays out. Instead, spacetime itself is an emergent, large-scale phenomenon arising from the collective dynamics of the more fundamental Universal Omnium Field, φ. What we perceive as the smooth, continuous manifold of spacetime is analogous to the macroscopic properties of a fluid, such as pressure and flow, which emerge from the statistical mechanics of countless, discrete atoms.

2025, The Principles of Sandy's Law

he history of physics can be viewed as a relentless drive toward unification. Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism; Einstein unified spacetime and gravity; the Standard Model unified the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces.... more

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We study the formation of domains in a continuous phase transition with a finite-temperature quench. The model treated is the Φ4 theory in two spatial dimensions with global O(2) symmetry. We investigate this using real-time thermal field theory, following Boyanovsky and collaborators, and find that domain sizes appear to be smaller than those produced in an instantaneous quench in the tree-level approximation. We also propose that a more physical picture emerges by examining the two-point functions which do not involve any cutoff on the short wavelength Goldstone modes.

2025, UNIVERSUM KUI INFOGENON – RESONANTSSEISUNDITE TEADUS, MATEMAATIKA JA FILOSOOFIA

At the onset of the Big Bang (10⁻⁶ seconds post-singularity), the universe existed as a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) - a near-zero-entropy "quark soup" exhibiting remarkable quantum coherence (Shuryak, 2017). Today, recreating QGP in... more

2025

This paper revisits the Holographic Universe theory, originally proposed by Bekenstein, Susskind, 't Hooft, Maldacena, and others, emphasizing the foundational role of information in the structure and evolution of the universe. Beginning with black hole thermodynamics and Hawking radiation, the article explores how information, once believed to be lost within black holes, may instead be preserved and encoded on the boundary surface of the universe. Drawing on the principles of entropy, information theory, and quantum mechanics-including complementarity, nonlocality, and the no-cloning theorem-the paper introduces the notions of "wrapped" and "unwrapped" information, illustrating how a new universe may emerge from the collapse of a black hole. The analysis highlights the conservation and trans-universal transmission of information, offering a speculative yet coherent model where black holes serve as bridges between universes.

2025

We present a novel cosmological framework, Lambda-Plasma Emergence Geometry (LPEG), which unifies fundamental forces, explains both dark energy and dark matter, resolves the baryon asymmetry, and introduces intention as a fundamental component of the universe. The model incorporates a dynamic Λ plasma , fractal geometry (D f = 2.7), a universal harmonic constant (κ ≈ 1.6333), and an intention operator (Φ I 0 ≈ 0.009). In this picture, dark matter is carried by stable dissociative plasma structures (DPS) coupled to a nonlocal informational-gravitational constraint field C DM µν , rather than by compact objects. We derive testable predictions for large-scale structure, CMB anomalies, and a quantum resonance experiment to measure Φ I 0 . This framework offers a unified theory of everything, bridging cosmology, particle physics, and consciousness.

2025, The Toroidal Gravitational Universe

The universe is a self-sustaining, toroidal (Spheroid doughnut-shaped) gravitational-magnetic system, where:  Matter is ejected from the "North" magnetic pole (creating the illusion of the Big Bang).  Matter converges into the "South"... more

2025, IDGS eBooks

Unlocking the mystery of the cosmos is one of the greatest intellectual challenges of our times. Although physicists have made massive strides since the time of Isaac Newton (1643--1727) at both the macroscopic (general relativity) and microscopic (quantum mechanics) levels, they have have yet to construct a "theory of everything". Even when they do, the theory of everything will not be able to satisfactorily explain and predict the dynamics of the universe. Why? Because physicists have been unable to develop a realist general dynamic theory. This is not a problem when analysing the static nature of the physical world, but it is a major limitation for cosmologists wanting to explain and predict the dynamics of the universe. In order to unlock the mystery of the cosmos, I have employed my realist dynamic-strategy theory (DST)--which I have been developing for the past half-century--to explore not only the dynamics of the universe and the laws that drive it, but also its origins and future as part of the Strategic Superverse. This brief book provides a radically new and unique interpretation that challenges the standard cosmology based on quantum theory. NOTE: this version corrects the garbled title of the first dynamic law of the cosmos (page 46) in the initial version.

2025, research gate

For decades, "dark matter" and "dark energy" have been invoked as mysterious, unobserved entities to explain fundamental cosmic observations, namely anomalous galactic dynamics and the accelerating expansion of the universe. This article definitively declares their scientific falsification under the Tanfarid Quantum Thermodynamic Universe (TQTU) framework. We prove these concepts are redundant artifacts of gravity-centric models that ignore the universe's true electromagnetic nature. Instead, electromagnetic plasma halos and quantum thermodynamic forces-fully observable in principle and mathematically defined within TQTU-account for all attributed phenomena. The era of "dark" unknowns ends here, replaced by the brilliance of the electromagnetic cosmos.

2025, SPIE Proceedings

The Experimental Probe of Inflationary Cosmology -Intermediate Mission (EPIC-IM) is a concept for the NASA Einstein Inflation Probe satellite. EPIC-IM is designed to characterize the polarization properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background to search for the B-mode polarization signal characteristic of gravitational waves generated during the epoch of Inflation in the early universe. EPIC-IM employs a large focal plane with 11,000 detectors operating in 9 wavelength bands to provide 30 times higher sensitivity than the currently operating Planck satellite. The optical design is based on a wide-field 1.4 m crossed-Dragone telescope, an aperture that allows not only comprehensive measurements of Inflationary B-mode polarization, but also measurements of the E-mode and lensing polarization signals to cosmological limits, as well as all-sky maps of Galactic polarization with unmatched sensitivity and angular resolution. The optics are critical to measuring these extremely faint polarization signals, and any design must meet demanding requirements on systematic error control. We describe the EPIC-IM crossed Dragone optical design, its polarization properties, and far-sidelobe response.

2025, Imprint

EPIC-Intermediate Mission, or EPIC-IM, because the aperture is intermediate between the 30 cm and 3 m cases studied previously. EPIC-IM's increased aperture allows access to a broader science case than the small EPIC-LC mission. In addition to the search for inflationary gravitational waves, the increased aperture allows us to mine the scalar polarization and shear polarization signals down to cosmological limits, so that we extract virtually all the cosmological information available from the CMB. In addition, a modest number of channels operating at higher frequencies allows for an all-sky measurement of polarized Galactic dust, which will provide a rich dataset for Galactic science related to magnetic fields. Using a combination of a large sensitivity focal plane with a new optical design, and an efficient 4 K mechanical cooler, EPIC-IM realizes higher sensitivity than EPIC-CS, but with a large mass savings.

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This work is dedicated to all the giants upon whose shoulders I have stood. I express deep gratitude to the scientific community for preserving and expanding our collective understanding of the cosmos, and to the developers and maintainers of open data repositories such as the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration and NASA archives, whose contributions made this research possible. Special thanks to the creators of open-source tools-Python, SciPy, Google Colab, and others-that empowered this independent effort. I am especially grateful for the existence of community-driven publishing platforms that enable unaffiliated researchers to contribute meaningfully to fundamental science. Finally, this work is dedicated to all current and future curious individuals who have questions and are motivated to seek the truth-and to those who will use and build upon this work to its fullest potential.

2025, Recursive Reality: A Structural Framework for the Emergence of Physics from Self-Knowing

This paper introduces a novel structural framework, Recursive Reality in which physical laws and behaviours are emergent from a recursive process of structural differentiation within an undivided origin. Built from the premise that awareness of existence requires recursive self-knowing, the framework models reality as a layered structure of distinctions recursively unfolding from an undifferentiated origin. Within this structure, key physical phenomena (including entropy, energy, gravitation, electromagnetism, coherence, interference, entanglement, spacetime curvature and quantum field behaviour) emerge naturally from recursive relationships. The paper presents the rationale for this approach, its philosophical and physical grounding, and a series of structural models that progressively reproduce known physical behaviours using minimal assumptions. The recursive framework is not positioned as a final theory, but as a coherent and evolving system of explanation. The results suggest that many features of reality traditionally treated as fundamental, such as spacetime, quantisation and force interactions may be derivative consequences of recursive structural constraints. Key implications for the philosophy of physics are explored, and a clear outline of current limitations and directions for further work is provided. This submission is offered as a contribution to foundational discourse, inviting dialogue and further refinement rather than claiming closure.

2025, Nuclear Physics B

When the universe was about 10 µseconds old, a first order cosmological quark -hadron phase transition occurred at a critical temperature of around 200 MeV. In this work, we study the quarkhadron phase transition in the context of brane-world cosmologies, in which our Universe is a three-brane embedded in a five-dimensional bulk, and within an effective model of QCD. We analyze the evolution of the physical quantities, relevant for the physical description of the early universe, namely, the energy density, temperature and scale factor, before, during, and after the phase transition. To study the cosmological dynamics and evolution we use both analytical and numerical methods. In particular, due to the high energy density in the early Universe, we consider in detail the specific brane world model case of neglecting the terms linearly proportional to the energy density with respect to the quadratic terms. A small brane tension and a high value of the dark radiation term tend to decrease the effective temperature of the quark-gluon plasma and of the hadronic fluid, respectively, and to significantly accelerate the transition to a pure hadronic phase. By assuming that the phase transition may be described by an effective nucleation theory, we also consider the case where the Universe evolved through a mixed phase with a small initial supercooling and monotonically growing hadronic bubbles.

2025

Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) are theoretical pseudoscalar particles proposed in various extensions of the Standard Model, with potential implications for dark matter and solutions to the strong CP problem. This paper presents a concise review of two principal mechanisms for ALP production: photon-photon fusion and the Primakoff effect. Through quantum field theoretical calculations, we derive and analyze the corresponding scattering cross-sections, highlighting their dependence on ALP mass, coupling constants, and center-of-mass energy. Numerical simulations using realistic parameters demonstrate how ALP production varies across energy regimes and under different experimental conditions. The sensitivity of detection is evaluated, with particular emphasis on experimental setups involving high-energy proton beams and fixed nuclear targets. We also discuss the challenges in isolating ALP signals from background processes and propose directions for enhancing experimental sensitivity. This study aims to provide a comprehensive yet accessible framework for understanding ALP phenomenology and contributes to the broader efforts in probing physics beyond the Standard Model.

2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

We present a numerical study of the relation between the cosmic peculiar velocity field and the gravitational acceleration field. We show that on mildly non-linear scales (4-10 h -1 Mpc Gaussian smoothing), the distribution of the Cartesian coordinates of each of these fields is well approximated by a Gaussian. In particular, their kurtoses and negentropies are small compared to those of the velocity divergence and density fields. We find that at these scales the relation between the velocity and gravity field follows linear theory to good accuracy. Specifically, the systematic errors in velocity-velocity comparisons due to assuming the linear model do not exceed 6% in β. To correct for them, we test various nonlinear estimators of velocity from density. We show that a slight modification of the α-formula proposed by Kudlicki et al. yields an estimator which is essentially unbiased and has a small variance.

2025, J. Fluids Struct.

Suspending a rectangular vessel which is partially filled with fluid from a single rigid pivoting pole produces an interesting theoretical model with which to investigate the dynamic coupling between fluid motion and vessel rotation. The exact equations for this coupled system are derived with the fluid motion governed by the Euler equations relative to the moving frame of the vessel, and the vessel motion governed by a modified forced pendulum equation. The nonlinear equations of motion for the fluid are solved numerically via a timedependent conformal mapping, which maps the physical domain to a rectangle in the computational domain with a time dependent conformal modulus. The numerical scheme expresses the implicit free-surface boundary conditions as two explicit partial differential equations which are then solved via a pseudospectral method in space. The coupled system is integrated in time with a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. The starting point for the simulations is the linear neutral stability contour discovered by Turner, Alemi Ardakani & Bridges (2014, J. Fluid Struct. 52, 166-180). Near the contour the nonlinear results confirm the instability boundary, and far from the neutral curve (parameterised by longer pole lengths) nonlinearity is found to significantly alter the vessel response. Results are also presented for an initial condition given by a superposition of two sloshing modes with approximately the same frequency from the linear characteristic equation. In this case the fluid initial conditions generate large nonlinear vessel motions, which may have implications for systems designed to oscillate in a confined space or on the slosh-induced-rolling of a ship.

2025, How Our Future Selves Help Accelerate Our Evolution

This essay builds on the theoretical model presented in the paper Chain Evolution of the Cosmos: A Model of the Higher Finite Universe (VKS) , published on the Zenodo platform under the record number: https://zenodo.org/records/15264654, and here too. This working paper builds on the model presented in QUANTUM EVOLUTION_SUPERPOSITION AS THE BASIS OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL COSMOS. It explores the hypothesis that civilizations evolve faster through quantum-retroactive information received from their future. The essay outlines historical and theoretical support for this idea and proposes a formal structure based on informational resonance and temporal feedback.